ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility & on CSR

Demonstrate your commitment to sustainable development and community support, enhancing your CSR

ISO 26000 Guidance on Social Responsibility

ISO 26000 for corporate social responsibility outlines international recommendations for making your organization more socially responsible. It will guide you in building and delivering a long-term social responsibility strategy, whatever the nature of your business. An enhancer of social responsibility, ISO 26000 corporate social responsibility can help you address everything from working practices to environmental policies, sustainable development, and the communities that you impact.

What is social responsibility?

Social responsibility has become one of the most important factors to measure your organization performance and this is true of all sectors of society. Social responsibility is an organization’s responsibility in terms of legal and voluntary duty to consider its social and environmental impact of its decisions and activities. A corporate responsibility strategy outlines the ways that an organization responsibility contributes to sustainable development, engages with its stakeholders, and behaves ethically.

This standard for CSR will enable businesses to bring together best practice in terms of workforce, customers, neighbors fair trade, and the all important demands on our natural resources and our climate. Through the BSI standards process, we have made an excellent social responsibility input from UK stakeholders to ensure this is a practical and effective approach

Mike Low, Director of standards

What are the benefits?

Design and build a social responsibility strategy tailored to your business

Adapt this strategy to any legal, cultural or political environment

Manage social or environmental issues specific to your business

Engage employees, communities and business partners in your strategy

Win greater trust and credibility as a socially responsible organization

Why choose BSI?

We pioneered standards more than 100 years ago and today we’re the market leader. We help over 65,000 organizations ranging from top global brands to small ambitious businesses in 150 countries to gain an edge over their competitors. As one of the few organizations that understands standards from start to finish, we don’t only assess how well you’re meeting the standards, but also we create new standards from scratch and train teams globally to use them and perform better. Our knowledge can transform your organization.